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Oblivion installed but not running

Hey everyone, new user of playonlinux but I have been using linux for many years now. I have the GOTY edition of Oblivion that comes with 2 install disks and I used them both to install with playonlinux. The install went fine, no errors or anything. But when I try to run it just does nothing, no error messare or even a hint of a window popping up. The logs have some info about not finding a driver, below is that log, it's the same thing repeated for each time I attempted to open Oblivion:

I tried googling but I couldn't find my exact issue, however I did try some things that were suggested. First I tried to install the patch, but it won't install. It says there is a file mismatch and gives me the choice to try again but same error comes up. Also tried running this is terminal:

So I looked up that error and somewhere it suggested I run: winetricks orm=backbuffer glsl=disable

which took with no output or messages. After all that and I still get the same log that I posted above so doesn't seem to be working. It all seems to be an issue with my Nvidia driver but I'm not really sure how to go about fixing it. I had some troubles with getting a working graphics driver on this computer at first so I fear that might be the case here. Below is my hardware and software specs:

Wine seem to search for libSM.so.6 so you're probably missing that library

Quote from Tutul

Okay, made some progress. It now tries to open a window but I get a window that says that OblivionLauncher.exe has encoutered a serious problem and needs to close. The debug log looks different as well:

You should really update wine to 3.0 -> it is in the tools menu to install a new one, then you can configure your app to change the wine version

@Tutul do you have any power on the wine building service here ?

Quote from ImperatorS79

I didn't know I could change the wine version it used, neat! okay so I did that and when I ran it a window came up saying wine needed to install something I think it was called "mono" anyways I let it download and install that. But it still brought up the failed oblivionlauncher.exe window and the debug output seems to have not changed but just in case I will post it below:

Okay we are making more progress! I'm no longer getting that libudev error after I tried what you suggested. And for the nvidia error, I followed the link but I don't have a xorg.conf file in that location. I looked it up and it seems a lot of distros are moving away from that and instead creating individual files in another location but those seem completely different (usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d). I tried to make a file under that directory like the others but I'm not really sure what i'm doing with that. I have found some old posts from old versions of ubuntu (such as 10.10) saying that a xorg.conf file can be created if its needed by going into recovery and doing some commands. I am confident that I can do that, but not sure if it's needed. Is that what's best here?

Haha, well that didn't work. After creating the file and I rebooted I couldn't get any graphical interface to load. It was stuck in tty. So I went back into recovery and removed the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and now I'm back in ubuntu with graphics. What an adventure this is. Is it possible for me to just use Nouveau like wine keeps suggesting? Not sure if it would have negative affects with Nvidia or not. I'm not really tied down to anything, just as long as my computer works.

I begin to run out of options. You should completely remove nvidia proprietary driver (even config file with autoremove) and test nouveau, then retest nvidia proprietary (to see if it's not a problem of config)

Edit: wait, could you install lib32-nvidia-libgl ? or it's equivalent on ubuntu ? (cause it seems you are missing 32 bits libGL.so ^^)

I begin to run out of options. You should completely remove nvidia proprietary driver (even config file with autoremove) and test nouveau, then retest nvidia proprietary (to see if it's not a problem of config)

Edit: wait, could you install lib32-nvidia-libgl ? or it's equivalent on ubuntu ? (cause it seems you are missing 32 bits libGL.so ^^)

I tried the Nouveau before I saw your edit, and it did work with that. Obilvion played and I got to the menu to start a new game, however I didn't start a new game or anything so I guess I didn't test completely but the fact that it started I felt was good enough.

So on your edit, I reinstalled the nvidia driver and ran the commands suggested in the link you sent. Oddly I'm not having some issues with POL with oblivion. I clicked run and nothing happened, debug does nothing. Clicked configure and there is a virtual drive for oblivion but there is no dropdown that has the excutable for oblivion like it had before. It's acting like there are no files in that driver. But I can open the POL terminal and navigate to through the windows file structure and even find the oblivion insall folder and see the launcher. I have no idea what's going on. Do I need to reinstall Oblivion?

That's weird, but I don't think so. You can still launch oblivion by typing

wine oblivion.exe

​in a POl terminal.

I hope it will work again, but I gave you all the "hints" I had ^^.

Quote from ImperatorS79

I found a way to add a new shortcut to POL from that virtual drive. Just going to remove the other one. Really strange that happened. Anyways, yeah it's not working with the nvidia driver still. But I have had some problems with the 32bit libraries with some other programs but I just gave up on fixing it in the past. I guess I just need to dig into what's going on there and maybe that will fix it. At worst, I can deal with Nouveau and it work there if REALLY want to play Oblivion. Thank you so much for all your help. We did solve a few of the issues and now I am just facing the same issue I have had for a while now. I really appreciate it. Both ImperatorS79 and Tutul , thank you!

The first answer did the trick for me. That "mesa" library was messing things up. I can now run Oblivion with my nvidia driver! Just wanted to post here just in case someone else has a similar issue and to spread some know how. Thanks again for your help!

thanks for the link Jacob. I have some similar issues (got some with best steroids weight loss but i can't fix any) and every answer i got here can be helpful. i am going to try to check if any of your answers would work for me and might come back with updates. thanks again!